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Users flocking to Mastodon from Twitter will need to shift their expectations for social media & become engaged democratic citizens in the life of their social networks.
@RVAwonk: One thing that keeps me up at night right now is the possibility that Twitter’s potential death spiral will coincide with a major regional/national/global crisis. For better or worse, Twitter is a crucial d...…
The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.
"Don't underestimate the power of a pocket veto."
EU hopes DMA will force Big Tech platforms to break open their walled gardens.
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When Peiter Zatko joined Twitter as head of security in late 2020 at the urging of founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey, he was surprised by what he discovered. Twitter, a social network with hundreds of millions of users, "was over a decade behind industry security standards," he later testified.
Peiter Zatko testifies, and senators have a list of questions for Twitter CEO.
Twitter's security issues might be "egregious," but they're also all too common.
Claims made in whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko’s SEC disclosure alleging that Twitter was forced to employ an agent of the Indian government have an even greater impact given the platform’s documented history with lax access controls and the persistent insider threat problem faced by US tech companies.
Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.
Be interesting to have students analyze this for organizational fail.
"Former employee narcs on you" as a form of insider threat.